Not snappy. Just beautiful, and off-white, and FULL: glasses, special crockery, everyday plates. And cookbooks? Did I mention the cookbooks? And the fruit bowls. And, currently, the money box for copper coins that, one day a year, disgorges its contents into something easy to carry so that I can trade them in for a money …
Author archives: alison
Hunt the moment
A different feeling today. The sickness and the cold have been (mostly) banished. It’s back to school, back to the morning school run for one parent – and time for the other to get the house back again. Except that it’s been rather lovely, the weekend extending by two days. Once the obligatory school phone …
T’internet
That’s what my brother refers to it as. Being based in Yorkshire as he is, you’ve got to get in your t’s while you can. It seems a strange one to put in the box, when it’s also work, rest, and a speedy route to Christmas present decision making, but there it is. Why today? …
Imagineering
I have a feeling that this is what the creatives at Walt Disney are called: imagineers? The ones who get to think up rides, plot lines – I’m not sure what is theirs, and what’s not. But I love the combination of imagination and engineer: through some practical application of impractical (but wonderful) thinking, we …
Comfort viewing
Time for the Sunday afternoon film. It’s become a bit of a ritual, post-lunch and before the Sunday evening downhill dash to get ready for a new week. Much of the time, it’s the others watching, while I either catch up on stuff, or fit in a crafty nap if I can. Today, we settled …